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09 June 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Open for Submissions A new open access, online-only, multidisciplinary research journal dedicated to publishing the most important scientific advances in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering fields that are facilitated by spaceflight and analogue platforms. Explore the benefits of submitting your next research article.         Physical Sciences               11-GHz waveguide Nd:YAG laser CW mode-locked with single-layer graphene ▶     Andrey G. Okhrimchuk, Petr A. Obraztsov     We report stable, passive, continuous-wave (CW) mode-locking of a compact diode-pumped waveguide Nd:YAG laser with a single-layer graphene saturable absorber. The depressed …             Investigation on Spin Dependent Transport Properties of Core-Shell Structural Fe3O4/ZnS Nanocomposites for Spintronic Application ▶     Er Liu, Honglei Yuan, Zhaoxia Kou et al.     The core-shell structural Fe3O4/ZnS nanocomposites with controllable shell thickness were well-fabricated via seed-mediate growth method. Structural and morphological …             Coherent Generation of Photo-Thermo-Acoustic Wave from Graphene Sheets ▶     Yichao Tian, He Tian, Y. L. Wu et al.     Many remarkable properties of graphene are derived from its large energy window for Dirac-like electronic states and have been explored for applications in electronics and …             Why humans build fires shaped the same way ▶     Adrian Bejan     Here we see why humans unwittingly build fires that look the same: edifices of fuel, as tall as they are wide. The pile of fuel is permeable, air invades it by natural convection …             Nanophase diagram of binary eutectic Au-Ge nanoalloys for vapor-liquid-solid semiconductor nanowires growth ▶     Haiming Lu, Xiangkang Meng     Although the vapor-liquid-solid growth of semiconductor nanowire is a non-equilibrium process, the equilibrium phase diagram of binary alloy provides important guidance on the …             A novel capsule-based self-recovery system with a chloride ion trigger ▶     Wei Xiong, Jiaoning Tang, Guangming Zhu et al.     Steel is prone to corrosion induced by chloride ions, which is a serious threat to reinforced concrete structures, especially in marine environments. In this work, we report a …             Experimental quantum annealing: case study involving the graph isomorphism problem ▶     Kenneth M. Zick, Omar Shehab, Matthew French     Quantum annealing is a proposed combinatorial optimization technique meant to exploit quantum mechanical effects such as tunneling and entanglement. Real-world quantum …             Multifunctional glucose biosensors from Fe3O4 nanoparticles modified chitosan/graphene nanocomposites ▶     Wenjing Zhang, Xiaojian Li, Ruitao Zou et al.     Novel water-dispersible and biocompatible chitosan-functionalized graphene (CG) has been prepared by a one-step ball milling of carboxylic chitosan and graphite. Presence of …             Cu4 Cluster Doped Monolayer MoS2 for CO Oxidation ▶     Z. W. Chen, J. M. Yan, W. T. Zheng et al.     The catalytic oxidation of CO molecule on a thermodynamically stable Cu4 cluster doped MoS2 monolayer is investigated by density functional theory (DFT) where the reaction …             Large increase in fracture resistance of stishovite with crack extension less than one micrometer ▶     Kimiko Yoshida, Fumihiro Wakai, Norimasa Nishiyama et al.     The development of strong, tough, and damage-tolerant ceramics requires nano/microstructure design to utilize toughening mechanisms operating at different length scales. The …             Li1.2Mn0.54Ni0.13Co0.13O2-Encapsulated Carbon Nanofiber Network Cathodes with Improved Stability and Rate Capability for Li-ion Batteries ▶     Dingtao Ma, Peixin Zhang, Yongliang Li et al.     Li1.2Mn0.54Ni0.13Co0.13O2-encapsulated carbon nanofiber network cathode materials were synthesized by a facile electrospinning method. The microstructures, morphologies and …             Vertical split-ring resonator based anomalous beam steering with high extinction ratio ▶     Wei-Lun Hsu, Pin Chieh Wu, Jia-Wern Chen et al.     Metasurfaces created artificially with metal nanostructures that are patterned on surfaces of different media have shown to possess “unusual” abilities to manipulate light. …             Microwave synthesis and actuation of shape memory polycaprolactone foams with high speed ▶     Fenghua Zhang, Tianyang Zhou, Yanju Liu et al.     Microwave technology is a highly effective approach to fast and uniform heating. This article investigates that the microwave heating as a novel method is used to rapidly foam …             Phase Modulation in Rydberg Dressed Multi-Wave Mixing processes ▶     Zhaoyang Zhang, Huaibin Zheng, Xin Yao et al.     We study the enhancement and suppression of different multi-waving mixing (MWM) processes in a Rydberg-EIT rubidium vapor system both theoretically and experimentally. The …             Synergistic Effect between Ultra-Small Nickel Hydroxide Nanoparticles and Reduced Graphene Oxide sheets for the Application in High-Performance Asymmetric Supercapacitor ▶     Yonghuan Liu, Rutao Wang, Xingbin Yan     Nanoscale electrode materials including metal oxide nanoparticles and two-dimensional graphene have been employed for designing supercapacitors. However, inevitable agglomeration …             Enhanced response and sensitivity of self-corrugated graphene sensors with anisotropic charge distribution ▶     Seung Yol Jeong, Sooyeon Jeong, Sang Won Lee et al.     We introduce a high-performance molecular sensor using self-corrugated chemically modified graphene as a three dimensional (3D) structure that indicates anisotropic charge …             High performance of Mn-Co-Ni-O spinel nanofilms sputtered from acetate precursors ▶     Zhiming Huang, Wei Zhou, Cheng Ouyang et al.     Mn-Co-Ni-O (MCN) spinel oxide material, a very important transition metal oxide (TMO) with the best application prospects in information and energy fields, was discovered over …             Far-field subwavelength imaging with near-field resonant metalens scanning at microwave frequencies ▶     Ren Wang, Bing-Zhong Wang, Zhi-Shuang Gong et al.     A method for far-field subwavelength imaging at microwave frequencies using near-field resonant metalens scanning is proposed. The resonant metalens is composed of switchable …             Focusing on Plates: Controlling Guided Waves using Negative Refraction ▶     Franck D. Philippe, Todd W. Murray, Claire Prada     Elastic waves are guided along finite structures such as cylinders, plates, or rods through reflection, refraction, and mode conversion at the interfaces. Such wave propagation …             Universal freezing of quantum correlations within the geometric approach ▶     Marco Cianciaruso, Thomas R. Bromley, Wojciech Roga et al.     Quantum correlations in a composite system can be measured by resorting to a geometric approach, according to which the distance from the state of the system to a suitable set of …             Analysis of the human diseasome using phenotype similarity between common, genetic, and infectious diseases ▶     Robert Hoehndorf, Paul N. Schofield, Georgios V. Gkoutos     Phenotypes are the observable characteristics of an organism arising from its response to the environment. Phenotypes associated with engineered and natural genetic variation are …             Molecular Origin of Strength and Stiffness in Bamboo Fibrils ▶     Sina Youssefian, Nima Rahbar     Bamboo, a fast-growing grass, has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than steel and concrete. The unique properties of bamboo come from the natural composite structure of fibers …             Moisture-responsive films of cellulose stearoyl esters showing reversible shape transitions ▶     Kai Zhang, Andreas Geissler, Michaela Standhardt et al.     Moisture-responsive materials are gaining greater interest for their potentially wide applications and the readily access to moisture. In this study, we show the fabrication of …             A Sweet Spot for Molecular Diagnostics: Coupling Isothermal Amplification and Strand Exchange Circuits to Glucometers ▶     Yan Du, Randall A. Hughes, Sanchita Bhadra et al.     Strand exchange nucleic acid circuitry can be used to transduce isothermal nucleic acid amplification products into signals that can be readable on an off-the-shelf glucometer. …             An Effective Way to Optimize the Functionality of Graphene-Based Nanocomposite: Use of the Colloidal Mixture of Graphene and Inorganic Nanosheets ▶     Xiaoyan Jin, Kanyaporn Adpakpang, In Young Kim et al.     The best electrode performance of metal oxide–graphene nanocomposite material for lithium secondary batteries can be achieved by using the colloidal mixture of layered CoO2 and …             Photocatalytic generation of hydrogen by core-shell WO3/BiVO4 nanorods with ultimate water splitting efficiency ▶     Yuriy Pihosh, Ivan Turkevych, Kazuma Mawatari et al.     Efficient photocatalytic water splitting requires effective generation, separation and transfer of photo-induced charge carriers that can hardly be achieved simultaneously in a …             Bayesian-based deconvolution fluorescence microscopy using dynamically updated nonstationary expectation estimates ▶     Alexander Wong, Xiao Yu Wang, Maud Gorbet     Fluorescence microscopy is widely used for the study of biological specimens. Deconvolution can significantly improve the resolution and contrast of images produced using …             Software-aided automatic laser optoporation and transfection of cells ▶     Hans Georg Breunig, Aisada Uchugonova, Ana Batista et al.     Optoporation, the permeabilization of a cell membrane by laser pulses, has emerged as a powerful non-invasive and highly efficient technique to induce transfection of cells. …             Metabolic engineering for the high-yield production of isoprenoid-based C5 alcohols in E. coli ▶     Kevin W. George, Mitchell G. Thompson, Aram Kang et al.     Branched five carbon (C5) alcohols are attractive targets for microbial production due to their desirable fuel properties and importance as platform chemicals. In this study, we …             All-optical coherent population trapping with defect spin ensembles in silicon carbide ▶     Olger V. Zwier, Danny O’Shea, Alexander R. Onur et al.     Divacancy defects in silicon carbide have long-lived electronic spin states and sharp optical transitions. Because of the various polytypes of SiC, hundreds of unique divacancies …             Unidirectional thermal expansion in edge-sharing BO4 tetrahedra contained KZnB3O6 ▶     Yanfang Lou, Dandan Li, Zhilin Li et al.     Borates are among a class of compounds that exhibit rich structural diversity and find wide applications. The formation of edge-sharing (es-) BO4 tetrahedra is extremely …             Resolving single molecule structures with Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond ▶     Matthias Kost, Jianming Cai, Martin B. Plenio     We present theoretical proposals for two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy protocols based on Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that are strongly coupled …             PAF-derived nitrogen-doped 3D Carbon Materials for Efficient Energy Conversion and Storage ▶     Zhonghua Xiang, Dan Wang, Yuhua Xue et al.     Owing to the shortage of the traditional fossil fuels caused by fast consumption, it is an urgent task to develop the renewable and clean energy sources. Thus, advanced …             Multi-dimensional TOF-SIMS analysis for effective profiling of disease-related ions from the tissue surface ▶     Ji-Won Park, Hyobin Jeong, Byeongsoo Kang et al.     Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) emerges as a promising tool to identify the ions (small molecules) indicative of disease states from the surface of …             A double-edged sword: Benefits and pitfalls of heterogeneous punishment in evolutionary inspection games ▶     Matjaž Perc, Attila Szolnoki     As a simple model for criminal behavior, the traditional two-strategy inspection game yields counterintuitive results that fail to describe empirical data. The latter shows that …             Structural color printing based on plasmonic metasurfaces of perfect light absorption ▶     Fei Cheng, Jie Gao, Ting S. Luk et al.     Subwavelength structural color filtering and printing technologies employing plasmonic nanostructures have recently been recognized as an important and beneficial complement to …             Quantum Coherent Feedback Control for Generation System of Optical Entangled State ▶     Yaoyao Zhou, Xiaojun Jia, Fang Li et al.     The non-measurement based coherent feedback control (CFC) is a control method without introducing any backaction noise into the controlled system, thus is specially suitable to …             Bessel beam CARS of axially structured samples ▶     Sandro Heuke, Juanjuan Zheng, Denis Akimov et al.     We report about a Bessel beam CARS approach for axial profiling of multi-layer structures. This study presents an experimental implementation for the generation of CARS by Bessel …             Laser-induced thermoelastic effects can evoke tactile sensations ▶     Jae-Hoon Jun, Jong-Rak Park, Sung-Phil Kim et al.     Humans process a plethora of sensory information that is provided by various entities in the surrounding environment. Among the five major senses, technology for touch, haptics, …             Demonstration of quantum permutation algorithm with a single photon ququart ▶     Feiran Wang, Yunlong Wang, Ruifeng Liu et al.     We report an experiment to demonstrate a quantum permutation determining algorithm with linear optical system. By employing photon's polarization and spatial mode, we realize the …             Plasmon coupling in vertical split-ring resonator metamolecules ▶     Pin Chieh Wu, Wei-Lun Hsu, Wei Ting Chen et al.     The past decade has seen a number of interesting designs proposed and implemented to generate artificial magnetism at optical frequencies using plasmonic metamaterials, but owing …             Realization of Large-Area Wrinkle-Free Monolayer Graphene Films Transferred to Functional Substrates ▶     Byeong-Ju Park, Jin-Seok Choi, Hyun-Suk Kim et al.     Structural inhomogeneities, such as the wrinkles and ripples within a graphene film after transferring the free-standing graphene layer to a functional substrate, degrade the …             Deep-subwavelength imaging of both electric and magnetic localized optical fields by plasmonic campanile nanoantenna ▶     Niccolò Caselli, Federico La China, Wei Bao et al.     Tailoring the electromagnetic field at the nanoscale has led to artificial materials exhibiting fascinating optical properties unavailable in naturally occurring substances. …             High-efficient thermoelectric materials: The case of orthorhombic IV-VI compounds ▶     Guangqian Ding, Guoying Gao, Kailun Yao     Improving the thermoelectric efficiency is one of the greatest challenges in materials science. The recent discovery of excellent thermoelectric performance in simple orthorhombic …             Noninvasive imaging of sialyltransferase activity in living cells by chemoselective recognition ▶     Lei Bao, Lin Ding, Min Yang et al.     To elucidate the biological and pathological functions of sialyltransferases (STs), intracellular ST activity evaluation is necessary. Focusing on the lack of noninvasive methods …             On the Formation of Nanobubbles in Vycor Porous Glass during the Desorption of Halogenated Hydrocarbons ▶     A. C. Mitropoulos, K. L. Stefanopoulos, E. P. Favvas et al.     Vycor porous glass has long served as a model mesoporous material. During the physical adsorption of halogenated hydrocarbon vapours, such as dibromomethane, the adsorption …             Global Spatio-temporal Patterns of Influenza in the Post-pandemic Era ▶     Daihai He, Roger Lui, Lin Wang et al.     We study the global spatio-temporal patterns of influenza dynamics. This is achieved by analysing and modelling weekly laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A and B from 138 …             Real-time estimation of paracellular permeability of cerebral endothelial cells by capacitance sensor array ▶     Dong Hyun Jo, Rimi Lee, Jin Hyoung Kim et al.     Vascular integrity is important in maintaining homeostasis of brain microenvironments. In various brain diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and multiple sclerosis, …             Controllable Synthesis and Tunable Photocatalytic Properties of Ti3+-doped TiO2 ▶     Ren Ren, Zhenhai Wen, Shumao Cui et al.     Photocatalysts show great potential in environmental remediation and water splitting using either artificial or natural light. Titanium dioxide (TiO2)-based photocatalysts are …             Electron spin coherence near room temperature in magnetic quantum dots ▶     Fabrizio Moro, Lyudmila Turyanska, James Wilman et al.     We report on an example of confined magnetic ions with long spin coherence near room temperature. This was achieved by confining single Mn2+ spins in colloidal semiconductor …             Elimination of strength degrading effects caused by surface microdefect: A prevention achieved by silicon nanotexturing to avoid catastrophic brittle fracture ▶     Kunal Kashyap, Amarendra Kumar, Chuan-Torng Huang et al.     The unavoidable occurrence of microdefects in silicon wafers increase the probability of catastrophic fracture of silicon-based devices, thus highlighting the need for a …             Anomalies of a topologically ordered surface ▶     Deepnarayan Biswas, Sangeeta Thakur, Khadiza Ali et al.     Bulk insulators with strong spin orbit coupling exhibit metallic surface states possessing topological order protected by the time reversal symmetry. However, experiments show …             Superior electro-optic response in multiferroic bismuth ferrite nanoparticle doped nematic liquid crystal device ▶     Prasenjit Nayek, Guoqiang Li     A superior electro-optic (E-O) response has been achieved when multiferroic bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3/BFO) nanoparticles (NPs) were doped in nematic liquid crystal (NLC) host E7 …             Substrate-mediated strain effect on the role of thermal heating and electric field on metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide nanobeams ▶     Min-Woo Kim, Wan-Gil Jung, Hyun-Cho et al.     Single-crystalline vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanostructures have recently attracted great attention because of their single domain metal-insulator transition (MIT) nature that …             Three-dimensional virtual surgery models for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) optimization strategies ▶     Hujun Wang, Jinghua Liu, Xu Zheng et al.     Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), especially coronary stent implantation, has been shown to be an effective treatment for coronary artery disease. However, in-stent …             Mechanical writing of n-type conductive layers on the SrTiO3 surface in nanoscale ▶     Yuhang Wang, Kehan Zhao, Xiaolan Shi et al.     The fabrication and control of the conductive surface and interface on insulating SrTiO3 bulk provide a pathway for oxide electronics. The controllable manipulation of local …             All-nanophotonic NEMS biosensor on a chip ▶     Dmitry Yu. Fedyanin, Yury V. Stebunov     Integrated chemical and biological sensors give advantages in cost, size and weight reduction and open new prospects for parallel monitoring and analysis. Biosensors based on …             Radio-frequency capacitance spectroscopy of metallic nanoparticles ▶     James C. Frake, Shinya Kano, Chiara Ciccarelli et al.     Recent years have seen great progress in our understanding of the electronic properties of nanomaterials in which at least one dimension measures less than 100 nm. However, …             Pattern formation in multiplex networks ▶     Nikos E. Kouvaris, Shigefumi Hata, Albert Díaz- Guilera     The advances in understanding complex networks have generated increasing interest in dynamical processes occurring on them. Pattern formation in activator-inhibitor systems has …             Lateral assembly of oxidized graphene flakes into large-scale transparent conductive thin films with a three-dimensional surfactant 4-sulfocalix[4]arene ▶     Ashok K. Sundramoorthy, Yilei Wang, Jing Wang et al.     Graphene is a promising candidate material for transparent conductive films because of its excellent conductivity and one-carbon-atom thickness. Graphene oxide flakes prepared by …             Phase stability frustration on ultra-nanosized anatase TiO2 ▶     Snehangshu Patra, Carine Davoisne, Houssny Bouyanfif et al.     This work sheds light on the exceptional robustness of anatase TiO2 when it is downsized to an extreme value of 4 nm. Since at this size the surface contribution to the volume …             Tungsten Doped TiO2 with Enhanced Photocatalytic and Optoelectrical Properties via Aerosol Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition ▶     Sanjayan Sathasivam, Davinder S. Bhachu, Yao Lu et al.     Tungsten doped titanium dioxide films with both transparent conducting oxide (TCO) and photocatalytic properties were produced via aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition of …             Mid-infrared passively switched pulsed dual wavelength Ho3+-doped fluoride fiber laser at 3 μm and 2 μm ▶     Jianfeng Li, Hongyu Luo, Lele Wang et al.     Cascade transitions of rare earth ions involved in infrared host fiber provide the potential to generate dual or multiple wavelength lasing at mid-infrared region. In addition, …             Activated carbon for aerobic oxidation: Benign approach toward 2-benzoylbenzimidazoles and 2-benzoylbenzoxazoles synthesis ▶     Kai Bao, Fuqing Li, Hanjing Liu et al.     A general strategy involving a novel and highly efficient aerobic benzylic oxidation promoted by cheap, reusable activated carbon in water is developed. Application of this …             Vertically aligned P(VDF-TrFE) core-shell structures on flexible pillar arrays ▶     Yoon-Young Choi, Tae Gwang Yun, Nadeem Qaiser et al.     PVDF and P(VDF-TrFE) nano- and micro- structures have been widely used due to their potential applications in several fields, including sensors, actuators, vital sign …             Molecular ion battery: a rechargeable system without using any elemental ions as a charge carrier ▶     Masaru Yao, Hikaru Sano, Hisanori Ando et al.     Is it possible to exceed the lithium redox potential in electrochemical systems? It seems impossible to exceed the lithium potential because the redox potential of the elemental …             Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective Graphene-Based Single Yarn for Use in Wearable Gas Sensor ▶     Yong Ju Yun, Won G. Hong, Nak-Jin Choi et al.     Electric components based on fibers or textiles have been investigated owing to their potential applications in wearable devices. High performance on response to gas, …             Networks: On the relation of bi- and multivariate measures ▶     Wolfgang Mader, Malenka Mader, Jens Timmer et al.     A reliable inference of networks from observations of the nodes’ dynamics is a major challenge in physics. Interdependence measures such as a the correlation coefficient or more …             Flat Panel Light Source with Lateral Gate Structure Based on SiC Nanowire Field Emitters ▶     Meng-Jey Youh, Chun-Lung Tseng, Meng-Han Jhuang et al.     A field-emission light source with high luminance, excellent luminance uniformity, and tunable luminance characteristics with a novel lateral-gate structure is demonstrated. The …             Programming cancer through phase-functionalized silicon based biomaterials ▶     Priyatha Premnath, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan     Applications of biomaterials in cancer therapy has been limited to drug delivery systems and markers in radiation therapy. In this article, we introduce the concept of …             Heralded Quantum Entanglement between Distant Matter Qubits ▶     Wen-Juan Yang, Xiang-Bin Wang     We propose a scheme to realize heralded quantum entanglement between two distant matter qubits using two Λ atom systems. Our proposal does not need any photon interference. We …             Aqueous dispersions of few-layer-thick chemically modified magnesium diboride nanosheets by ultrasonication assisted exfoliation ▶     Saroj Kumar Das, Amita Bedar, Aadithya Kannan et al.     The discovery of graphene has led to a rising interest in seeking quasi two-dimensional allotropes of several elements and inorganic compounds. Boron, carbon’s neighbour in the …             Structural ensembles reveal intrinsic disorder for the multi-stimuli responsive bio-mimetic protein Rec1-resilin ▶     Rajkamal Balu, Robert Knott, Nathan P. Cowieson et al.     Rec1-resilin is the first recombinant resilin-mimetic protein polymer, synthesized from exon-1 of the Drosophila melanogaster gene CG15920 that has demonstrated unusual …             Degradation of Li/S Battery Electrodes On 3D Current Collectors Studied Using X-ray Phase Contrast Tomography ▶     L. Zielke, C. Barchasz, S. Waluś et al.     Lithium/sulphur batteries are promising candidates for future energy storage systems, mainly due to their high potential capacity. However low sulphur utilization and capacity …             Hydrazine solution processed Sb2S3, Sb2Se3 and Sb2(S1−xSex)3 film: molecular precursor identification, film fabrication and band gap tuning ▶     Bo Yang, Ding-Jiang Xue, Meiying Leng et al.     Sb2(S1−xSex)3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) compounds have been proposed as promising light-absorbing materials for photovoltaic device applications. However, no systematic study on the synthesis …             Inferring the connectivity of coupled oscillators from time-series statistical similarity analysis ▶     Giulio Tirabassi, Ricardo Sevilla-Escoboza, Javier M. Buldú et al.     A system composed by interacting dynamical elements can be represented by a network, where the nodes represent the elements that constitute the system, and the links account for …             Non-contact intracellular binding of chloroplasts in vivo ▶     Yuchao Li, Hongbao Xin, Xiaoshuai Liu et al.     Non-contact intracellular binding and controllable manipulation of chloroplasts in vivo was demonstrated using an optical fiber probe. Launching a 980-nm laser beam into a fiber, …             Internally architectured materials with directionally asymmetric friction ▶     Ehsan Bafekrpour, Arcady Dyskin, Elena Pasternak et al.     Internally Architectured Materials (IAMs) that exhibit different friction forces for sliding in the opposite directions are proposed. This is achieved by translating deformation …             Stable Odor Recognition by a neuro-adaptive Electronic Nose ▶     Eugenio Martinelli, Gabriele Magna, Davide Polese et al.     Sensitivity, selectivity and stability are decisive properties of sensors. In chemical gas sensors odor recognition can be severely compromised by poor signal stability, …             A Biologically Inspired Network Design Model ▶     Xiaoge Zhang, Andrew Adamatzky, Felix T.S. Chan et al.     A network design problem is to select a subset of links in a transport network that satisfy passengers or cargo transportation demands while minimizing the overall costs of the …             First-principles study of the influence of different interfaces and core types on the properties of CdSe/CdS core-shell nanocrystals ▶     V. Kocevski, J. Rusz, O. Eriksson et al.     With the expanding field of nanoengineering and the production of nanocrystals (NCs) with higher quality and tunable size, having reliable theoretical calculations to complement …             Solid-state Reaction of Azolium Hydrohalogen Salts with Silver Dicyanamide – Unexpected Formation of Cyanoguanidine-azoles, Reaction Mechanism and Their Hypergolic Properties ▶     Wei Liu, Qiu-han Lin, Yu-chuan Li et al.     Cyanoguanidines as well as azoles are important bioactive groups, which play an important role in the medical application; meanwhile, the high nitrogen content makes them …             Realization of high-luminous-efficiency InGaN light-emitting diodes in the “green gap” range ▶     Yang Jiang, Yangfeng Li, Yueqiao Li et al.     Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the wavelength region of 535–570 nm are still inefficient, which is known as the “green gap” problem. Light in this range causes maximum luminous …             Three-dimensional patterns from the thin-film drying of amino acid solutions ▶     Xuehua Zhang, Alexandru Crivoi, Fei Duan     Experimental atomic force microscopy (AFM) images show the dried-in patterns from amino acid solutions which can be in the form of dots or networks. The three-dimensional …             Pre-Yield Non-Affine Fluctuations and A Hidden Critical Point in Strained Crystals ▶     Tamoghna Das, Saswati Ganguly, Surajit Sengupta et al.     A crystalline solid exhibits thermally induced localised non-affine droplets in the absence of external stress. Here we show that upon an imposed shear, the size of these …             Nodal bilayer-splitting controlled by spin-orbit interactions in underdoped high-Tc cuprates ▶     N. Harrison, B. J. Ramshaw, A. Shekhter     The highest superconducting transition temperatures in the cuprates are achieved in bilayer and trilayer systems, highlighting the importance of interlayer interactions for high T…             Acoustic asymmetric transmission based on time-dependent dynamical scattering ▶     Qing Wang, Yang Yang, Xu Ni et al.     An acoustic asymmetric transmission device exhibiting unidirectional transmission property for acoustic waves is extremely desirable in many practical scenarios. Such a unique …             Robustness of plasmon phased array nanoantennas to disorder ▶     Felipe Bernal Arango, Rutger Thijssen, Benjamin Brenny et al.     We present cathodoluminescence experiments that quantify the response of plasmonic Yagi-Uda antennas fabricated on one-dimensional silicon nitride waveguides as function of …             Flexure-based Roll-to-roll Platform: A Practical Solution for Realizing Large-area Microcontact Printing ▶     Xi Zhou, Huihua Xu, Jiyi Cheng et al.     A continuous roll-to-roll microcontact printing (MCP) platform promises large-area nanoscale patterning with significantly improved throughput and a great variety of …             Dual yolk-shell structure of carbon and silica-coated silicon for high-performance lithium-ion batteries ▶     L. Y. Yang, H. Z. Li, J. Liu et al.     Silicon batteries have attracted much attention in recent years due to their high theoretical capacity, although a rapid capacity fade is normally observed, attributed mainly to …             Quantum Discord for d⊗2 Systems ▶     Zhihao Ma, Zhihua Chen, Felipe Fernandes Fanchini et al.     We present an analytical solution for classical correlation, defined in terms of linear entropy, in an arbitrary system when the second subsystem is measured. We show that the …             Cu Mesh for Flexible Transparent Conductive Electrodes ▶     Won-Kyung Kim, Seunghun Lee, Duck Hee Lee et al.     Copper electrodes with a micromesh/nanomesh structure were fabricated on a polyimide substrate using UV lithography and wet etching to produce flexible transparent conducting …             Disordering of the vortex lattice through successive destruction of positional and orientational order in a weakly pinned Co0.0075NbSe2 single crystal ▶     Somesh Chandra Ganguli, Harkirat Singh, Garima Saraswat et al.     The vortex lattice in a Type II superconductor provides a versatile model system to investigate the order-disorder transition in a periodic medium in the presence of random …             Ultimate Osmosis Engineered by the Pore Geometry and Functionalization of Carbon Nanostructures ▶     Zhigong Song, Zhiping Xu     Osmosis is the key process in establishing versatile functions of cellular systems and enabling clean-water harvesting technologies. Membranes with single-atom thickness not only …             Suppressing of slow magnetic relaxation in tetracoordinate Co(II) field-induced single-molecule magnet in hybrid material with ferromagnetic barium ferrite ▶     Ivan Nemec, Radovan Herchel, Zdeněk Trávníček     The novel field-induced single-molecule magnet based on a tetracoordinate mononuclear heteroleptic Co(II) complex involving two heterocyclic benzimidazole (bzi) and two …             Novel Handheld Magnetometer Probe Based on Magnetic Tunnelling Junction Sensors for Intraoperative Sentinel Lymph Node Identification ▶     A. Cousins, G. L. Balalis, S. K. Thompson et al.     Using magnetic tunnelling junction sensors, a novel magnetometer probe for the identification of the sentinel lymph node using magnetic tracers was developed. Probe performance …             Ionic transport through sub-10 nm diameter hydrophobic high-aspect ratio nanopores: experiment, theory and simulation ▶     Sébastien Balme, Fabien Picaud, Manoel Manghi et al.     Fundamental understanding of ionic transport at the nanoscale is essential for developing biosensors based on nanopore technology and new generation high-performance …             Extraction of pore-morphology and capillary pressure curves of porous media from synchrotron-based tomography data ▶     Feifei Yang, Ferdinand F. Hingerl, Xianghui Xiao et al.     The elevated level of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has caused serious concern of the progression of global warming. Geological sequestration is considered as one of the most …             Characterizations of individual mouse red blood cells parasitized by Babesia microti using 3-D holographic microscopy ▶     HyunJoo Park, Sung-Hee Hong, Kyoohyun Kim et al.     Babesia microti causes “emergency” human babesiosis. However, little is known about the alterations in B. microti invaded red blood cells (Bm-RBCs) at the individual cell level. …             A novel brain partition highlights the modular skeleton shared by structure and function ▶     Ibai Diez, Paolo Bonifazi, Iñaki Escudero et al.     Elucidating the intricate relationship between brain structure and function, both in healthy and pathological conditions, is a key challenge for modern neuroscience. Recent …             Tuning Organic Carbon Dioxide Absorbents for Carbonation and Decarbonation ▶     Ramachandran Rajamanickam, Hyungsoo Kim, Ji-Woong Park     The reaction of carbon dioxide with a mixture of a superbase and alcohol affords a superbase alkylcarbonate salt via a process that can be reversed at elevated temperatures. To …             Adaptive sampling dual terahertz comb spectroscopy using dual free-running femtosecond lasers ▶     Takeshi Yasui, Ryuji Ichikawa, Yi-Da Hsieh et al.     Terahertz (THz) dual comb spectroscopy (DCS) is a promising method for high-accuracy, high-resolution, broadband THz spectroscopy because the mode-resolved THz comb spectrum …             CO2-Selective Nanoporous Metal-Organic Framework Microcantilevers ▶     Changyong Yim, Moonchan Lee, Minhyuk Yun et al.     Nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) microcantilevers are fabricated and MIL-53 (Al) metal-organic framework (MOF) layers are directly synthesized on each cantilever surface by …             Theoretical predictions on the electronic structure and charge carrier mobility in 2D Phosphorus sheets ▶     Jin Xiao, Mengqiu Long, Xiaojiao Zhang et al.     We have investigated the electronic structure and carrier mobility of four types of phosphorous monolayer sheet (α-P, β-P,γ-P and δ-P) using density functional theory combined …             Black metal thin films by deposition on dielectric antireflective moth-eye nanostructures ▶     Alexander B. Christiansen, Gideon P. Caringal, Jeppe S. Clausen et al.     Although metals are commonly shiny and highly reflective, we here show that thin metal films appear black when deposited on a dielectric with antireflective moth-eye …             Direct measurements of magnetic interaction-induced cross-correlations of two microparticles in Brownian motion ▶     Maria N. Romodina, Maria D. Khokhlova, Evgeny V. Lyubin et al.     The effect of magnetic interactions on the Brownian motion of two magnetic microparticles is investigated. The cross-correlations of the thermal fluctuations of the two magnetic …             Structures, stabilities, and electronic properties of defects in monolayer black phosphorus ▶     Xi-Bo Li, Pan Guo, Teng-Fei Cao et al.     The structures, stabilities, and electronic properties of monolayer black phosphorus (M-BP) with different kinds of defects are investigated within the frame of …             Three-dimensional digital microfluidic manipulation of droplets in oil medium ▶     Jiwoo Hong, Young Kwon Kim, Dong-Joon Won et al.     We here develop a three-dimensional DMF (3D DMF) platform with patterned electrodes submerged in an oil medium to provide fundamental solutions to the technical limitations of 2D …             Constructing three-dimensional (3D) nanocrystalline models of Li4SiO4 for numerical modeling and simulation ▶     Yanhong Shen, Tao Gao, Xiaofeng Tian et al.     The three-dimensional (3D) nanocrystalline models of lithium silicates with the log-normal grain size distribution are constructed by constrained Voronoi tessellation. During …             Tunable Bistability in Hybrid Bose-Einstein Condensate Optomechanics ▶     Kashif Ammar Yasir, Wu-Ming Liu     Cavity-optomechanics, a rapidly developing area of research, has made a remarkable progress. A stunning manifestation of optomechanical phenomena is in exploiting the mechanical …             A core-shell-shell nanoplatform upconverting near-infrared light at 808 nm for luminescence imaging and photodynamic therapy of cancer ▶     Fujin Ai, Qiang Ju, Xiaoman Zhang et al.     Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have been extensively explored for photodynamic therapy (PDT) and imaging due to their representative large anti-Stokes shifts, deep …             Maskless inverted pyramid texturization of silicon ▶     Yan Wang, Lixia Yang, Yaoping Liu et al.     We discovered a technical solution of such outstanding importance that it can trigger new approaches in silicon wet etching processing and, in particular, photovoltaic cell …             Direct growth of freestanding GaN on C-face SiC by HVPE ▶     Yuan Tian, Yongliang Shao, Yongzhong Wu et al.     In this work, high quality GaN crystal was successfully grown on C-face 6H-SiC by HVPE using a two steps growth process. Due to the small interaction stress between the GaN and …             Investigation of mid-infrared emission characteristics and energy transfer dynamics in Er3+ doped oxyfluoride tellurite glass ▶     Fangze Chen, Tao Wei, Xufeng Jing et al.     Er3+ doped oxyfluoride tellurite glasses have been prepared. Three Judd-Ofelt parameters Ωt (t = 2, 4, 6) and radiative properties are calculated for prepared glasses. Emission …             Spatial resolution versus data acquisition efficiency in mapping an inhomogeneous system with species diffusion ▶     Fengxiang Chen, Yong Zhang, T. H. Gfroerer et al.     Traditionally, spatially-resolved photoluminescence (PL) has been performed using a point-by-point scan mode with both excitation and detection occurring at the same spatial …             Short-wavelength infrared photodetector on Si employing strain-induced growth of very tall InAs nanowire arrays ▶     Hyun Wook Shin, Sang Jun Lee, Doo Gun Kim et al.     One-dimensional crystal growth enables the epitaxial integration of III-V compound semiconductors onto a silicon (Si) substrate despite significant lattice mismatch. Here, we …             Temperature Dependence of Electrical and Thermal Conduction in Single Silver Nanowire ▶     Zhe Cheng, Longju Liu, Shen Xu et al.     In this work, the thermal and electrical transport in an individual silver nanowire is characterized down to 35 K for in-depth understanding of the strong structural defect …             A Novel Characterization of Amalgamated Networks in Natural Systems ▶     Victor J. Barranca, Douglas Zhou, David Cai     Densely-connected networks are prominent among natural systems, exhibiting structural characteristics often optimized for biological function. To reveal such features in …             Disease Containment Strategies based on Mobility and Information Dissemination ▶     A. Lima, M. De Domenico, V. Pejovic et al.     Human mobility and social structure are at the basis of disease spreading. Disease containment strategies are usually devised from coarse-grained assumptions about human …             Dynamic mode coupling in terahertz metamaterials ▶     Xiaoqiang Su, Chunmei Ouyang, Ningning Xu et al.     The near and far field coupling behavior in plasmonic and metamaterial systems have been extensively studied over last few years. However, most of the coupling mechanisms …             Advanced aqueous rechargeable lithium battery using nanoparticulate LiTi2(PO4)3/C as a superior anode ▶     Dan Sun, Yifan Jiang, Haiyan Wang et al.     Poor cycling performance arising from the instability of anode is still a main challenge for aqueous rechargeable lithium batteries (ARLB). In the present work, a high …             The role of basic residues in the adsorption of blood proteins onto the graphene surface ▶     Zonglin Gu, Zaixing Yang, Lingle Wang et al.     With its many unique properties, graphene has shown great potential in various biomedical applications, while its biocompatibility has also attracted growing concerns. Previous …             Toward Smart Implant Synthesis: Bonding Bioceramics of Different Resorbability to Match Bone Growth Rates ▶     Rafael Comesaña, Fernando Lusquiños, Jesús del Val et al.     Craniofacial reconstructive surgery requires a bioactive bone implant capable to provide a gradual resorbability and to adjust to the kinetics of new bone formation during …             Decoupling the role of stiffness from other hydroxyapatite signalling cues in periosteal derived stem cell differentiation ▶     Giorgio Mattei, Concetta Ferretti, Annalisa Tirella et al.     Bone extracellular matrix (ECM) is a natural composite made of collagen and mineral hydroxyapatite (HA). Dynamic cell-ECM interactions play a critical role in regulating cell …             The anatomy of urban social networks and its implications in the searchability problem ▶     C. Herrera-Yagüe, C. M. Schneider, T. Couronné et al.     The appearance of large geolocated communication datasets has recently increased our understanding of how social networks relate to their physical space. However, many …             Pushing the limits of radiofrequency (RF) neuronal telemetry ▶     Tara Yousefi, Rodolfo E. Diaz     In a previous report it was shown that the channel capacity of an in vivo communication link using microscopic antennas at radiofrequency is severely limited by the requirement …             The role of Hurst exponent on cold field electron emission from conducting materials: from electric field distribution to Fowler-Nordheim plots ▶     T. A. de Assis     This work considers the effects of the Hurst exponent (H) on the local electric field distribution and the slope of the Fowler-Nordheim (FN) plot when considering the cold field …             Well-temperate phage: optimal bet-hedging against local environmental collapses ▶     Sergei Maslov, Kim Sneppen     Upon infection of their bacterial hosts temperate phages must chose between lysogenic and lytic developmental strategies. 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